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The System Won’t Let Me Do That
The perennial concern about AI, and in particular Advance General Intelligence (AGI), has been that it will become self-aware and take over, making choices for humans that are in the best interest of the machines rather than the people. It was HAL 9000 (HAL being one letter off of IBM) and later Skynet. What I’ve…
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Wisdom Is Worth More Than Knowlege
Wisdom > Knowledge In the age of AI, wisdom is more important than knowledge. That doesn’t mean knowledge has no value: it’s difficult to imagine how one would apply wisdom that wasn’t grounded in knowledge. It just means the knowledge itself is increasingly available by other means. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.…
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Design Systems in the Age of AI
A couple of weeks back, Ethan Marcotte joined us at the Boston WordPress meetup and gave a talk titled “The Design Systems Between Us” (video embedded below). As one would expect, it was a thoughtful exploration, parts of which are still looping in my brain. What are we to do with design systems in the…
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It Was Never Really the Budget
I learned very early on in the process of selling web design & build projects that you never make optional any of the things you believe are critical to project success: If you made any of these things “optional” or (the phrase procurement often requested) “a la carte,” they inevitably got cut once the budget…
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Design That Does More
(Credit to Sara Wachter-Boettcher, whose “We don’t need more content, we need content that does more” is imprinted in my brain). I’ve got a ton of ideas from Ethan Marcotte‘s talk at the Boston WordPress meetup earlier this week – will share the video when it is ready. He explored what’s gone well with Design…